The Company Director: Powers, Duties and Liabilities 12th edition

The Company Director: Powers, Duties and Liabilities provides comprehensive coverage, in a single volume, of the powers, legal obligations and responsibilities of executive and non-executive company directors.

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Why you should buy The Company Director: Powers, Duties and Liabilities

The Company Director: Powers, Duties and Liabilities provides comprehensive coverage, in a single volume, of the powers, legal obligations and responsibilities of executive and non-executive company directors. The complex relationships of directors with fellow directors, the company, its employees and shareholders are fully explained.

Now in its 12th edition, this well-respected and established work has been updated to include:

* A chapter on recently revised rules relating to corporate security especially the provisions governing constructive knowledge and priorities * Coverage of the new mechanism of making complaints to the Company Names Adjudicator. This new procedure is considered in some detail * Coverage of the latest changes to the company share buy-back regime * Discussion of the anticipated provisions of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, including abolition of corporate directors, directors' extended liabilities to disqualification and on insolvency, a new 'consent to act' regime and the new register of Persons with Significant Control * Case-law including Prest v Petrodel Resources, VTB Capital, Chandler v Cape plc, British Bank of the Middle East v Sun Life Association of Canada, ING Re (UK) Ltd v Versicherung AG, Wrexham AFC v Crucialmove Ltd

Featured Authors

Peter Loose

David Impey

Peter Loose

Consultant, Edwin Coe LLP; Michael Griffiths LLB, LLM, formerly Deputy Head of the School of Law, University of Wolverhampton and Company Law Conference Speaker